Hello!
i sucked the ppc-devel-tree to my hd, set up a NFS server for the downloaded files and burned boot.iso from the dir "mac". The boot cd booted but it found no network device.
all i know i took from the HOWTO at http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html I couldn't by all efforts find more about this topic in the net...
If i burn the FC3 PPC development tree on an DVD, boot with a CD and select "CD-ROM" as Installation method, anaconda tells me that it didn't find a FC CD that fits to my boot CD. That's allready a bit more than i got with my first try (DVD without ".disc-info", without "SRPMS" and named other than "FC-3 ppc"). There it said that it didn'T find a FC CD. my second DVD should be OK, the only dir that didn't fit onto the dvd was "debug" but i read in the howto, that i don't need it. so what's wrong?
I also tried to get help at another maillist:
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 14:59 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
I've seen anaconda happily load the sungem driver, then fail to notice that there's now an eth0 and demand that you specify a network driver to load. Helpfully it notices that sungem is already loaded though, so it removes that from the list of options :)
That's what happens to me if i try to install on the PowerMacG3 (350MHz), but with the bmac driver. alt Alt+F4 it says: <7> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 <6> eth0: BMAC+ at 00:05:02:61:a3:51 so i guess anaconda could load the driver. but it doesn't go further then. It just keeps me asking to select a driver...
Does anybody have experience with this topic and could give me a hint? Or can anybody tell me what to do or where it's documented how i can install FC-3 on Macs? I have a PowerMac G3 (350MHz) and it's really important that i install fedora there...
Thanks in advance
caio, nico.
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:12:57PM +0100, Markus Nicolussi wrote:
Hello!
i sucked the ppc-devel-tree to my hd, set up a NFS server for the downloaded files and burned boot.iso from the dir "mac". The boot cd booted but it found no network device.
This can happen as the device isn't visible in PCI without being active IIRC.
If you manually select sungem from the driver list does it work?
If i burn the FC3 PPC development tree on an DVD, boot with a CD and select "CD-ROM" as Installation method, anaconda tells me that it didn't find a FC CD that fits to my boot CD. That's allready a bit more than i got with my first try (DVD without ".disc-info", without "SRPMS" and named other than "FC-3 ppc"). There it said that it didn'T find a FC CD. my second DVD should be OK, the only dir that didn't fit onto the dvd was "debug" but i read in the howto, that i don't need it. so what's wrong?
This happens if the .discinfo timestamp does not match the stage 2 image - are you sure it's from the same tree - the boot.iso needs to match the stage2.
That's what happens to me if i try to install on the PowerMacG3 (350MHz), but with the bmac driver. alt Alt+F4 it says: <7> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 <6> eth0: BMAC+ at 00:05:02:61:a3:51 so i guess anaconda could load the driver. but it doesn't go further then. It just keeps me asking to select a driver...
Ah ok this is a bug, I've not been able to track down yet.
Does anybody have experience with this topic and could give me a hint? Or can anybody tell me what to do or where it's documented how i can install FC-3 on Macs? I have a PowerMac G3 (350MHz) and it's really important that i install fedora there...
Mac is not a "supported" release yet - so you'll have to be prepared to take the rough with the smooth.
Paul
Hei paul! hei everybody!
...and burned boot.iso from the dir "mac". The boot cd booted but it found no network device.
This can happen as the device isn't visible in PCI without being active IIRC.
If you manually select sungem from the driver list does it work?
sungem is not the prob. automatic detection works on the ibook (built 2001), i can have a network connection there. It finds my nfs tree and loades stage 2 but then suddenly doesn't go further.
but at the PowerMacG3 -- which should work with the bmac driver -- there I don't i cannot get the network connection to work even when i mannually select the driver. The automatic detection doesn't work at all.
but with the bmac driver. alt Alt+F4 it says: <7> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 <6> eth0: BMAC+ at 00:05:02:61:a3:51 so i guess anaconda could load the driver. but it doesn't go further then. It just keeps me asking to select a driver...
Ah ok this is a bug, I've not been able to track down yet.
Can i SOMEHOW help you to find this crazy bug??? you see i'd do nearly EVERYTHING to get FC3 running on this mac. (It would be like heaven for the jouth house i want to do it... !!!) but i am no programmer. i mean i was, but only on windows and that's jears ago. but i have still have some basic understanding... Si if thetre is anything i can do PLEASE TELL ME!!!
If i burn the FC3 PPC development tree on an DVD, boot with a CD and select "CD-ROM" as Installation method, anaconda tells me that it didn't find >
a FC CD that fits to my boot CD. That's allready a bit more than i got
with my first try (DVD without ".disc-info", without "SRPMS" and named other than "FC-3 ppc"). There it said that it didn'T find a FC CD. my second DVD should be OK, the only dir that didn't fit onto the dvd was "debug" but i read in the howto, that i don't need it. so what's wrong?
This happens if the .discinfo timestamp does not match the stage 2 image - are you sure it's from the same tree - the boot.iso needs to match the stage2.
No, i guess the tree is under steady development, they change something nearly every day. I tried to be up-to-date by comparing all the directories with my ftp-prog (gFTP) but maybe something went wrong. I will do a complete new download all in one day...
Mac is not a "supported" release yet - so you'll have to be prepared to take the rough with the smooth.
Any idea when fedora will have the ressources to make ppc an offical releas? I mean, if there are to less people: I could participate by testing...
thankx so far and ciao, nico.
ps. at the moment i am in the czech republik. this is 1000 km far away from the macs i spoke of. but in 2 weeks i will be there again (in austria) and then i will work a lot on this topic. so please be patient for 2 weeks.
Hello everybody!
I promised u to send u my test report for the PowerMacG3. unfortunately i could do nothing the whole week, because i have to download a boot.iso and somehow there is no! I look every day 2 times at this sites
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc/imag... http://ftp.uni-koeln.de//mirrors/fedora/core/development/ppc/images/mac/
and hope this changes. What's the problem? Can i help somehow? When can i download a CD boot image. Or how can i make a bootable DVD?
ciao, nico.
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 13:26 +0100, mcwimpy@gmx.at wrote:
I promised u to send u my test report for the PowerMacG3. unfortunately i could do nothing the whole week, because i have to download a boot.iso and somehow there is no! I look every day 2 times at this sites
boot.iso stopped being generated, on not only PPC, I understand. There's an open bug report on this, and I'm sure it'll be fixed in due time
and hope this changes. What's the problem? Can i help somehow? When can i download a CD boot image. Or how can i make a bootable DVD?
There's a older tree at: http://fedoraproject.org/fedorappc/
There's also a FC3 release hidden somewhere *grin*, which at some stage we need to release it even if its semi-broken
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